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Genesis Veracity wrote: The composition of magma is easy to learn about, just google (or yahoo, or altavista, or ask) water composition of magma (or something like that).

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Magma is molten rock located beneath the surface of the Earth (or any other rocky planet), and which often collects in a magma chamber.

Magma is a complex high-temperature (between 650 and 1200 °C) silicate solution that is ancestral to all igneous rocks. It is capable of intrusion into adjacent crustal rocks or extrusion onto the surface.

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So I just did more research on this topic than you did for your book. Wrong again.

Oh, I see, Doctor X, there is no water in magma according to you.

You should write a paper about this, the experts would be fascinated I'm sure.

Genesis Veracity wrote:Oh, I see, Doctor X, there is no water in magma according to you.

You should write a paper about this, the experts would be fascinated I'm sure.

Now, the energy. How much over how long what are the implications.

(Keep digging, Jim)

Ed, that was a poorly constructed question, very vague, no parameters, try it again.

Doctor X, that "quack quack" thing is really funny.

Genesis Veracity wrote:Ed, that was a poorly constructed question, very vague, no parameters, try it again.

Avoidance noted.

You really are a faker, aren't you?

There was nothing there to avoid.

There's no question that magma does contain water. There's also no question that it's not a very significant amount.

So the question is: how much magma is needed to produce enough water to cover the earth?

Do we agreed figures on how much water we actually require?

(Obviously the fact that most of the water in magma originates from the subduction of oceanic crust is a further complication to the theory )

Essan, as you know, there are vast resevoirs of water within the earth, and who knows how much was under there in days gone by?

Additionally, water is roughly 70% of magma by weight, so with 30 pounds of extruded magma (lava), you get 70 lbs of liquid water, so you can see there was plenty of water which came through the "fountains of the deep."

Doctor X, go write that book about how there's no water in magma, I'll buy the first copy.

Mr. Nienhuis has a B.S. in earth sciences from Dartmouth College (1976), and has worked in the oil and ocean transportation industries for over twenty years. His scholarship in "creation science" over the last fifteen years led to over two-hundred half-hour TV shows aired in Houston, Texas.

OK, got it. You don't have an advanced degree, you took an undergrad major. 30 years ago.

You are forgiven for your faulty understanding of "Magma".